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Chapter 844 Warm water boiled frog

In the early days, the Mongolian outlaws attacked the Xuanfu army's positions in Changling Mountain for several rounds. In fact, there were no rules.

After Ombu Chuhuer, Shanba, and Karma finally retreated, Ashan and Baiyintu also discussed some countermeasures, and reported it to Prince Yu Duoduo, and they were allowed to implement it.

Therefore, this time, the Eight Banners Mongolian Zhenghuang and Xianghuang mainly attacked the mountain, and they arranged many coated slave ants to attach them. Their role was no longer to cooperate with the attack, but to fill up the trenches.

However, there are also many traps in front of those trenches. If they cannot be filled in, not only will it affect the attack, but also the subsequent shield vehicles will not be able to push forward.

And it is undoubtedly a very huge project to fill all these traps.

At the same time, we must be careful to guard against the artillery bombardment of the Sanming army. Although at this time, solid iron bullets or stone bullets are mainly used, flowering bullets are rarely used, and even poisonous gray bullets are rarely seen.

But even if it was a solid bullet that would not explode, the power was still astonishing. Under the fear, those Aha slaves were also timid and did not dare to move forward wholeheartedly.

They even pushed or dragged the corpses of their companions directly into the large and small traps, and only filled some soil bags on top. In this way, their speed of filling the traps was much faster.

This is the cruelty of war. Once the red eyes are killed, the relatives will not recognize it, let alone the companions who fight together?

At this moment, the most important thing in the world is to keep yourself alive!

The more we went up, the steeper the terrain became. Although there were fewer traps on the ground, there were more longitudinal trenches, which the Tartars had no way to fill.

Fortunately, these ditches were parallel to the direction they were traveling, and since they did not prevent them from attacking the mountains, they did not bother to spend manpower to fill them up one by one.

As the two Ming defense lines in the southeast and northeast of the Changling Mountain defense line got closer, the long vertical trenches gradually converged, and the dozens of ramps that could accommodate people narrowed down.

This is like "boiling a frog in warm water"!
Although there were trenches at the beginning, they did not attract too much attention because they were dug vertically and could not stop the Qing army from attacking Changling Mountain.

But as they got closer to the defense line of the trench walls and trenches of the Ming army, they discovered that these long trenches were gradually moving closer together, and the road became narrower and narrower as a result, but it was too late.

More and more Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers and coated slaves crowded together densely. If you look down from a high altitude, it looks like a few ants are moving.

Moreover, there are no annoying traps and ditches on these passages, and the road surface is extremely smooth, making walking comfortable.

It's just that on the passages in front of me, there are so many corpses falling here and there, there are also some wooden shields that have fallen apart, or have been split and blown up, and the few shield carts that have been pushed here with great difficulty.

The wreckage of these equipment has seriously hindered the passage of the Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers who attacked the mountain.

A Mongolian general shouted orders, and the Aha slaves who were forced to walk in the front began to push the wreckage of these human bodies and shield vehicles into the trenches on both sides.

With the advancing ramp cleared, the Mongol Eight Banners began to move forward.

"Tom! Tom! Tom!..."

However, at this moment, the artillery fire on the mountain struck again violently. Some bombarded the edge of the trench, raising a cloud of gravel and dust, while others bombarded the middle of the trench, causing a rain of blood to fly into the air.

Although these cannons seldom hit the Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers who attacked the mountain head-on, but the momentum was extremely shocking. Many people were frightened, and they scrambled in the crowd .

Immediately, many Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers who attacked the mountain were squeezed into the trenches on both sides. Although there were no sharp wooden thorns inside, the trapezoidal trench was deeper than their heads, and the side walls were covered with thorns. It was trimmed so smooth, how could it be possible to climb up.

The flustered Mongolian soldiers were in the trench, scratching for a while, and they didn't know a stump, which was other unknown parts. They screamed and fled far away.

The smoke of death filled the entire defense line of the Ming army, and every time it rose, it caused a commotion among the Mongolian soldiers attacking the mountain. While those Mongolian soldiers with the two yellow banners struggled and screamed, they all felt a sense of despair in their hearts.

Where is this an ordinary mountain?

This is clearly a corpse mountain hell, a cemetery that kills people!

With great difficulty, the Mongolian soldiers of the Two Yellow Banners finally pushed forward to less than a hundred meters before the first wave of low wall trenches. However, at this moment, they felt a deep sense of powerlessness in their hearts.

Until this time, they finally understood, what were the group of Mongolian soldiers from outside the domain who attacked the mountain afraid of before that?
In front of their eyes is a low wall, although it is not very high, it only reaches the chest of each of them, but it seems to be very solidly built.

Moreover, this is nothing, the key is that there is a slope in front of the solid and thick low wall. If the thickness of the slope is included, the low wall is estimated to be about two feet thick.

But now the wall of the moat is sprayed with resin or soaked in oil. The slope is extremely slippery, making it impossible for people to use their strength, feel the edge, and have nowhere to exert their strength when they want to climb up.

And these trenches are already full of corpses, and the bloody smell is particularly strong, which is very difficult for people to resist, let alone on the battlefield where the situation is changing rapidly.

Many Mongolian soldiers who fell into the ditch desperately scratched the not steep but smooth ditch wall, but the feeling of having nowhere to put their strength on increased the fear in their hearts.

For a time, almost every long trench heard a heart-pounding roar and whining sound.

There were some relatively calm Mongolian soldiers of the Two Yellow Banners. They put their long knives, big guns, and long axes into the trenches one after another, so that those trapped below could climb up with their strength.

But in front of them, there are still three full trenches, which is completely contrary to their initial judgment.

At first, all the officers, generals and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty thought that there was only a wide trench in front of the trench wall, so they organized the Mongolian Eight Banners to charge, and the Aha slaves also took the opportunity to fill up the trench.

But now when we get closer, we realize that there are three trenches!

The two trenches in front of the toilet are okay, although they are more than half a zhang wide and more than half a zhang deep, and the bottom is also covered with sharp wooden thorns.

But the key is still the third trench!

This last ditch is more than one foot deep and about one foot wide. In addition to the upside-down wooden planks full of thorns, the bottom is even muddy, and all the Mongolian soldiers who fell into it They are all muddy, and it is very difficult to move them.

Under such circumstances, those lucky ones who were not pierced by the spikes, not to mention climbing up, even found it extremely difficult to lift their feet.

Moreover, because behind this trench is the defense line of the Ming army's trench wall, the edge of the trench near the side of the trench wall is covered with sharper barbed wire.

Even if some soldiers of the Mongolian Two Yellow Banners stepped on the bodies of their companions and climbed up, all their hands were covered by caltrops, and they would also end up with broken hands and fingers.

Furthermore, even if these soldiers of the Mongolian Two Yellow Banners can successfully cross the last trench, there are still two barriers in front of them, Jumaluyan.

And when they approached the first trench, they had already entered the shooting range of the Yunzhou Type [-] guns practiced by the Xuanfu army, even those Qing troops who were lucky enough to cross the three trenches.

But it is not easy for them to move the antlers of the refusal horses in front of the trench wall under the eyes of the soldiers of the Xuanfu army?

Not filling it with a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood is like easily breaking through the defense line set up by the Xuanfu Army on Changling Mountain. That is simply a dream!
In fact, the Mongolian soldiers from the Outer Domain who attacked the mountain last time could not even break through the second trench.

Now, just before the second trench, there are corpses of Mongolian soldiers from the Outer Domain, all of them with strange expressions, scattered all over the inside and outside of the two trenches.

And that's not all, the Mongolian soldiers of the Two Yellow Banners also had brilliant minds.

They saw that the Ming army guarding the mountain had suffered heavy casualties before engaging in battle. From the current point of view, the Ming army guarding the mountain is extremely difficult. figure.

From this point of view, if you want to completely capture the mountains here, you don't know how many lives of your own warriors will be filled.

Human nature is like this. When everything is going well, everyone can go forward bravely and rush forward desperately, in order to reap greater and more benefits, for fear of falling behind others.

But once things change a little bit, and the situation on the battlefield shows a slight defeat, there will be those kind of people who think they are smart, and they will always turn around and flee first, thus driving the entire army to collapse.

The soldiers of Mongolia's Two Yellow Banners have always been brave and brave, and they have always been treated the best among the Mongolian Eight Banners. All of this is due to their own bravery and fighting skills in exchange for desperate fighting.

They also knew this clearly, but although they never turned around and fled, their progress also slowed down unknowingly, and the scene of scrambling for the first place at the beginning no longer reappeared!

In fact, as long as these Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers crossed the first trench, they would be within the shooting range of the Xuanfu army's guns, but they didn't know it yet.

Looking at the corpses of the Mongolian soldiers from the Outer Domain in the ditch, and the corpses on the flat ground where the second ditch was connected, everyone looked suspicious, not knowing why they died.

After all, there are wide trenches blocking them. When the Mongolian soldiers from the Outer Domain were retreating, they all wanted to escape for their own lives, so they jumped away in a hurry, and those unfortunate people fell into the deep trenches just an inch away. Within, do not escape.

In this way, those dead or dying Mongolian soldiers from the outer vassal state were naturally left on the flat ground between the two trenches, and when they were dying, the pain and struggle from the heart made their souls cry. Different shapes and complexions.

At this moment, it looks really weird!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

There was a sound of orderly bombardment of firecrackers, and a large cloud of white smoke was seen flying from behind the moat wall.

In the white smoke, clusters of flames suddenly appeared, and deadly bullets flew from the crenel of the trench wall. They flew towards the enemy who invaded their own country, whistling,

"Puff... pop... pop... pop... pop... pop..."

The bullets struck and hit the wrapped slaves in front continuously. They screamed and wailed and fell to the ground, all of them with extremely distorted expressions. Many of them struggled and rolled into the ditch without a sound.

As the Aha slaves in the front row fell, dense bullets began to shoot at the two yellow-flag Mongolian soldiers behind them, but most of the front rowmen held shields to protect their vital points.

After the chaotic sound of "crackling", the Qing army in front of the first trench was instantly emptied.

But how could they retreat just like that, only to hear the sound of shouting from the back of the formation, the Mongolian soldiers dodged to the sides one after another, and a group of Yu Ding from various Manchurian banners in various armors rushed up.

Several people in the front row each held a large shield to cover, while the people behind were divided into two rows, carrying a long and wide wooden plank and rushed up. The plank is thrown forward with all its might.

Maybe it's because they have done this kind of thing a lot, their strength is just right, and there is a hemp rope behind the long board.

I saw two burly men, when the plank was about to fly out of the edge of the ditch, they grasped the hemp rope and pulled it hard, the force of the long plank flying forward was counteracted, and it fell straight down, just in time On both slopes of the trench.

As the long wooden planks are implemented in the same way, the trenches in front of each reserved ramp become smooth roads in an instant.

"Kill...kill...kill Nan Gouzi..."

A roar sounded from the front of the first ditch, and it resounded through the sky in an instant. It seemed that the depressed mood suffered from the previous attack on the mountain was completely released at this moment.

Amidst the roar, the Mongolian soldiers of the two Yellow Banners, led by their respective generals, stepped onto the newly laid wooden bridge and crossed the first ditch that was regarded as a natural moat before!
But they hadn't had time to be happy, and they hadn't had a chance to turn around and take out the long planks and put them on the second ditch.

Everything has come to an end!
On the Ming army's position, large clouds of white smoke rose up, and in the smoke were also large groups of flames spraying out.

The governor of Jiliao, Hong Chengchou, successively supported a hundred Baizi guns for Chen Zheng, and Chen Zheng actually placed all these close-range combat weapons on the first line of defense.

However, there is nothing wrong with this, the shooting distance of the Baizi blunderbuss is almost the same as that of the Yunzhou blunderbuss, but its only advantage is that it does not need to aim, and it is very convenient to shoot.

Baizichuang, as the name suggests, can shoot hundreds of small cannonballs at a time, while Chen Zheng's Baizicun up and down.

What's more, after the gun is ignited, it is a scattered surface strike, so there is no need to aim and shoot carefully like the Yunzhou gun.

There are nearly a hundred Baizi guns, shooting nearly ten thousand small cannonballs or gravel, its power can be imagined, not to mention the Mongolian soldier wearing only armor in front, he is just a big rock, I am afraid To be smashed to pieces!

(End of this chapter)